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'''Jason Neil Gillespie''' (born 19 April 1975) is a former [[Australia national cricket team|Australian]] [[cricket]]er who played all three formats of the game. Primarily a right-arm [[fast bowling|fast bowler]], but he was also a competent lower-order batsman with a Test double century, an unbeaten 201. Gillespie made his Test debut against the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] at [[Sydney Cricket Ground|Sydney]] in 1996 and his [[One Day International]] debut against [[Sri Lankan cricket team|Sri Lanka]] at [[Sinhalese Sports Club Ground|Colombo]] in the Singer World Series in 1996.
'''Jason Neil Gillespie''' (born 19 April 1975) is a former [[Australia national cricket team|Australian]] [[cricket]]er who played all three formats of the game. Primarily a right-arm [[fast bowling|fast bowler]], but he was also a competent lower-order batsman with a Test double century, an unbeaten 201, the highest score by a night-watchman in international cricket. Gillespie made his Test debut against the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] at [[Sydney Cricket Ground|Sydney]] in 1996 and his [[One Day International]] debut against [[Sri Lankan cricket team|Sri Lanka]] at [[Sinhalese Sports Club Ground|Colombo]] in the Singer World Series in 1996.


He played for [[Southern Redbacks|South Australia]], [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] and [[Glamorgan County Cricket Club|Glamorgan]] at first-class level. He was an AIS [[Australian Cricket Academy]] scholarship holder in 1995.<ref>{{cite book|title=Excellence : the Australian Institute of Sport|year=2002|publisher=Australian Sports Commission|location=Canberra}}</ref>
He played for [[Southern Redbacks|South Australia]], [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] and [[Glamorgan County Cricket Club|Glamorgan]] at first-class level. He was an AIS [[Australian Cricket Academy]] scholarship holder in 1995.<ref>{{cite book|title=Excellence : the Australian Institute of Sport|year=2002|publisher=Australian Sports Commission|location=Canberra}}</ref>

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Jason Gillespie
Personal information
Full name
Jason Neil Gillespie
Born (1975-04-19) 19 April 1975 (age 49)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
NicknameDizzy
Height1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast
RoleBowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 370)29 November 1996 v West Indies
Last Test16 April 2006 v Bangladesh
ODI debut (cap 127)30 August 1996 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI12 July 2005 v England
ODI shirt no.4
Only T20I (cap 12)13 June 2005 v England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1994–2008South Australia
2006–2007Yorkshire
2008Glamorgan
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I LA
Matches 71 97 1 192
Runs scored 1,218 201 24 640
Batting average 18.73 12.56 24.00 14.22
100s/50s 1/2 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 201* 44* 24 44*
Balls bowled 14,234 5,144 24 10,048
Wickets 259 142 1 255
Bowling average 26.13 25.42 49.00 27.40
5 wickets in innings 8 3 0 3
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 7/37 5/22 1/49 5/22
Catches/stumpings 27/– 10/– 0/0 31/–
Source: cricinfo.com, 19 November 2016

Jason Neil Gillespie (born 19 April 1975) is a former Australian cricketer who played all three formats of the game. Primarily a right-arm fast bowler, but he was also a competent lower-order batsman with a Test double century, an unbeaten 201, the highest score by a night-watchman in international cricket. Gillespie made his Test debut against the West Indies at Sydney in 1996 and his One Day International debut against Sri Lanka at Colombo in the Singer World Series in 1996.

He played for South Australia, Yorkshire and Glamorgan at first-class level. He was an AIS Australian Cricket Academy scholarship holder in 1995.[1]

On 29 February 2008, Gillespie announced his retirement from first-class cricket in Australia and then played for a period in the unauthorised Indian Cricket League for the Ahmedabad Rockets.[2] At the end of the 2008 English domestic season he retired from all first-class cricket.[3]

As Yorkshire County Cricket Club's first team coach from 2012 to 2016, he guided them to two County Championship titles. Gillespie is an ethical vegan.[4]

Personal life

Jason Gillespie is a descendant on his father's side of the Kamilaroi people of Indigenous Australians, and is the first acknowledged Aboriginal person to become a Test cricketer.[5] His mother has Greek heritage and Jason is the eldest of the five children.[6] He attended Cabra Dominican College in Adelaide, South Australia. Gillespie married Anna (née McEvoy) in 2003. The couple have four children: Jackson (born February 2006), Brandon (born October 2007), Kingston (birthdate unknown)[7] and daughter Delaney, born November 2012 in Yorkshire.[8] Gillespie also has another daughter, Sapphire (born March 1995) from a previous relationship.[9]

Domestic career

Gillespie made his first domestic first-class century exactly a year later on his 32nd birthday in a County Championship match versus Surrey at The Oval whilst playing for Yorkshire. He hit an unbeaten 123 and in doing so, alongside Tim Bresnan, set a record ninth-wicket partnership for Yorkshire. The pair put on 246 before Bresnan was stumped off the bowling of Nayan Doshi. Gillespie's 123 not out was also the highest score for Yorkshire by a number 10 batsman.

Gillespie made his first Australian domestic century in a Pura Cup match in the 2007/08 season against Tasmania. He put on a 250-run partnership with the South Australian wicketkeeper Graham Manou, who made 190. Gillespie remained 118 not out when the innings came to a close.

International career

Bowling

Gillespie took 259 wickets in 71 Tests (at an average of 26.13) making him Australia's sixth-highest wicket-taker and giving him the 14th best bowling average for Australian bowlers who have taken more than a hundred wickets.[10]

In terms of pace, he bowled in the mid-140s–150 km/h mark in his early career up to about 2001. When he made his comeback in the 2000/01 season, he bowled more consistently, but at a speed of about mid-130s–low 140s in terms of kilometres per hour. Consistent injuries forced Gillespie to operate from a shorter run-up and therefore reduce his pace.[citation needed]

Gillespie seldom dominated a Test series (the most wickets he took in a series is 20), but he was a reliable support bowler over several years for his more famous teammates Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne. However, Gillespie's career suffered an unexpectedly sharp decline. In early 2005, there were some signs that he was struggling, with somewhat poor displays against New Zealand, but he was still considered Australia's leading fast-bowling partner for McGrath. This poor form continued into the 2005 Ashes series where he struggled badly, taking just three wickets at a cost of 300 runs and, as a result, was dropped after the third Test.[citation needed]

After the Ashes series Gillespie took 40 wickets for South Australia during the 2005/06 Pura Cup Season. He was the fourth-highest wicket taker in the competition, with an average (21.27) far below the other leading wicket takers. His best figures came against Victoria where he took 7–35. These performances saw him make a return to the Australian Test side against Bangladesh after injury problems to the first choice attack. Gillespie was named man of the series after taking 8 wickets and making a double century in the two Tests but was never selected to play for Australia again.

Batting

Gillespie occasionally proved his worth with the bat, with a highest Test score of 201 not out and an average of 18.73. He is the only player in Test cricket with a career batting average of less than 20 to reach 200 runs in an innings. He demonstrated a solid defensive game,[according to whom?] known amongst teammates as 'The Walking Forward Defence', and despite not regularly making big scores, he was a difficult batsman to dismiss and occupied the crease for substantial periods of time, allowing his batting partner time to get a big score. Also, given his low back lift, he could defend or deflect shots from spin bowlers more readily.

He has a one-day international high score of 44 not out and he averages 12.56 in one-day internationals with a strike rate of 78.53.

In the second Test match against Bangladesh at Chittagong on 19 April 2006, Gillespie (201 not out) set the world record (on his 31st birthday) for the highest individual score by a night watchman. This was Gillespie's maiden first-class century. Gillespie also shared a 4th wicket partnership of 320 runs with Michael Hussey. Gillespie was awarded man-of-the-match honours for his double-century in the first innings, and he was also named man of the series for his efforts that included eight wickets, at an average of 11.25, across the two Tests. It was his final match in international cricket. Gillespie is the only night watchman to score a double century in an innings of a Test.[11]

Injuries

Jason Gillespie preparing to bowl for South Australia against Western Australia in January 2007

Throughout his career, Gillespie had bad luck with injuries, suffering from foot injuries, stress fractures in the back, hip twinges, side-strains, shoulders, torn calves, aching hamstrings, groin complaints and a broken right leg. He played only 52 from a possible 92 Tests following his debut to his axing during the 2005 Ashes series. Despite these problems, he was both accurate and economical.

In Australia's 1999 tour of Sri Lanka, he was involved in a sickening outfield collision when both he and Steve Waugh were running to take a catch. Waugh was running from the infield towards the outfield, while Gillespie was running in. Waugh dived for the ball resulting in his nose and Gillespie's right leg being broken. The catch was not taken.

Coaching career

Gillespie became a coach in Zimbabwe in August 2010. He worked primarily with the MidWest Rhinos, but he is also working on "grass roots" activities to improve the performance of young players in Zimbabwe.[12]

Gillespie was drafted in as the bowling coach of IPL's team Kings XI Punjab after their opening match against Pune Warriors in April 2011.[13]

In November 2011, he was named first-team coach of Yorkshire after a shake up in the club's coaching system.[14] In his first season with Yorkshire, they were promoted from division two of the county championship; in the second, they were runners-up in the first division; and they won the title in 2014 and 2015, when he was one of the candidates to coach England.[15] He returned to Australia after Yorkshire narrowly missed out on a third successive title in 2016.[16]

In April 2015 Gillespie was named as the coach of the Adelaide Strikers team in the Big Bash League.[citation needed]

Gillespie has criticised dairy farming and the use of leather balls. While coaching Yorkshire, the club was sponsored by a dairy, about which Gillespie said: "Yes, they are a sponsor but it doesn't mean I agree with what they do. It's out of my control, just like the fact that cricket balls are made of leather".[4]

In July 2017, Gillepsie was appointed as the interim head coach for the Papua New Guinea national team replacing former New Zealand Test player, Dipak Patel.[17]

Career best performances

Bowling
Score Fixture Venue Season
Test 7/37 England v Australia Headingley, Leeds 1997[18]
ODI 5/22 Australia v Pakistan Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi 2002[19]
T20I 1/49 England v Australia Rose Bowl, Southampton 2005[20]
FC 8/50 New South Wales v South Australia SCG, Sydney 2001[21]
LA 5/13 Glamorgan v Warwickshire Sophia Gardens, Cardiff 2008[22]
T20 2/19 Yorkshire v Derbyshire Headingley, Leeds 2007[23]

International centuries

Test centuries

Test centuries of Jason Gillespie
No Runs Match Against City/Country Venue Start date Result
[1] 201* 71  Bangladesh Bangladesh Chittagong, Bangladesh Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium 16 April 2006 Won

International record

Test 5 Wicket hauls

# Figures Match Opponent Venue City Country Year
1 5/54 4  South Africa St George's Park Port Elizabeth South Africa 1997
2 7/37 8  England Headingley Cricket Ground Leeds England 1997
3 5/88 10  England WACA Ground Perth Australia 1998
4 5/89 16  West Indies Adelaide Oval Adelaide Australia 2000
5 6/40 17  West Indies Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne Australia 2000
6 5/53 23  England Lord's London England 2001
7 5/39 40  West Indies Bourda Georgetown Guyana 2003
8 5/56 57  India Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground Nagpur India 2004

ODI 5 Wicket hauls

# Figures Match Opponent Venue City Country Year
1 5/22 38  Pakistan Gymkhana Club Ground Nairobi Kenya 2002
2 5/70 41  Pakistan Gymkhana Club Ground Nairobi Kenya 2002
3 5/32 72  Zimbabwe Harare Sports Club Harare Zimbabwe 2004

International awards

One Day International Cricket

Man of the Match awards

S No Opponent Venue Date Match Performance Result
1 Sri Lanka Galle International Stadium, Galle 22 August 1999 0 (1 balls) ; 6–1–26–3  Australia won by 50 runs (D/L).[24]
2 England Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester 14 June 2001 DNB ; 9–5–20–3  Australia won by 125 runs (D/L).[25]
3 South Africa New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg 22 March 2002 11* (12 balls) ; 10–0–39–3  Australia won by 19 runs.[26]
4 Bangladesh Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo 19 September 2002 10–1–20–3 ; DNB  Australia won by 9 wickets.[27]
5 India SuperSport Park, Centurion 15 February 2003 10–2–13–3 ; DNB  Australia won by 9 wickets.[28]
6 Sri Lanka R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo 25 February 2004 10–1–36–3 ; DNB  Australia won by 5 wickets.[29]
7 Zimbabwe Harare Sports Club, Harare 29 May 2004 10–2–32–5, 1 ct. ; DNB  Australia won by 8 wickets.[30]

References

  1. ^ Excellence : the Australian Institute of Sport. Canberra: Australian Sports Commission. 2002.
  2. ^ "Cricket on Times of India | Live Cricket Score, Cricket News, India Cricket" (in French). Cricket.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  3. ^ Gillespie happy with retirement decision, Cricinfo, Retrieved on 9 November 2008
  4. ^ a b "Yorkshire's vegan cricket coach stumps sponsors after questioning use of leather balls and calling for entire dairy industry to be shut down". The Telegraph. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  5. ^ "Aboriginal cricket: The first Australian tour of England, 1868". BBC News. 9 July 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  6. ^ "Darwin dreaming inspires Gillespie". The Sydney Morning Herald. 16 July 2003.
  7. ^ "McEvoy Family Tree, Cungena, SA, P.1". 2 May 2004. Archived from the original on 2 May 2004. Retrieved 8 April 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ "Alison's Tea Break: Gillespie -'Three different formats is the biggest challenge for bowlers today'". YouTube. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  9. ^ "Another son arrives for Jason & Anna Gillespie | Aussie Bub Blog". Aussiebubblog.Wordpress.com. 22 October 2007. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ "Cricket Records | Records | Australia | Test matches | Best averages | ESPN Cricinfo". Stats.cricinfo.com. 1 January 1970. Archived from the original on 1 September 2009. Retrieved 26 June 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ "Records | Test matches | Batting records | Most runs in an innings by a nightwatchman | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  12. ^ Cricinfo staff (18 August 2010). "Donald and Gillespie bullish about Zimbabwe". ESPN. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  13. ^ [1][dead link‍]
  14. ^ Jason Gillespie named Yorkshire coach and batsman Phil Jaques returns, BBC, Retrieved 22 May 2012
  15. ^ ECB set to lose out on head coach target Jason Gillespie, Daily Telegraph, Retrieved 13 April 2015
  16. ^ "Gillespie to leave Yorkshire at end of season". YorkshireCCC.com. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  17. ^ "Jason Gillespie named interim PNG coach". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  18. ^ "Australia tour of England and Scotland, 1997 – England v Australia Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 28 July 1997. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  19. ^ "PSO Tri-Nation Tournament 2002, 2nd Match – Australia v Pakistan Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 30 August 2002. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  20. ^ "Australia tour of England and Scotland, 2005 – England v Australia Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 13 June 2005. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  21. ^ "Pura Cup, 2001/02 – NSW v SA Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 28 October 2001. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  22. ^ "Pro40 Division Two, 2008 – Glamorgan v Warwickshire Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 22 August 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  23. ^ "Twenty20 Cup, North Division, 2007 – Yorkshire v Derbyshire Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 6 July 2007. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  24. ^ "1999–2000 Aiwa Cup – 1st Match – Sri Lanka v Australia – Galle". Howstat. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  25. ^ "2001 NatWest Series - 5th Match - England v Australia - Manchester". Howstat. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  26. ^ "2001-2002 South Africa v Australia - 1st Match - Johannesburg". Howstat. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  27. ^ "2002-2003 ICC Champions Trophy - 8th Match - Australia v Bangladesh - Colombo". Howstat. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  28. ^ "2002-2003 ICC World Cup - 12th Match - Australia v India - Centurion". Howstat. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  29. ^ "2003-2004 Sri Lanka v Australia - 3rd Match - Colombo". Howstat. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  30. ^ "2003-2004 Zimbabwe v Australia - 3rd Match - Harare". Howstat. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2015.

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